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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Farmer mowing alfalfa with a horse-drawn mower in an Imperial Valley alfalfa field
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Farmer mowing alfalfa with a horse-drawn mower in an Imperial Valley alfalfa field
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Description
Photograph of a farmer mowing alfalfa with a horse-drawn mower in an Imperial Valley (or Ventura County) alfalfa field. Two horses draw the mower across the field which is already mowed in the foreground. A row of trees grows along the horizon.
Asset Metadata
Title
Farmer mowing alfalfa with a horse-drawn mower in an Imperial Valley alfalfa field
Subject
Agricultural machinery
(lcsh),
agricultural sites
(adlf),
Agriculture
(lcsh),
Agriculture -- Ranching -- General
(file heading),
Alfalfa
(lcsh),
Farmers
(lcsh),
Horses
(lcsh),
Imperial County -- General
(file heading),
Ventura County -- General
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Imperial
(counties),
USA
(countries),
Ventura
(counties)
Temporal Subject
1900/1910
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1900/1910
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7243
Identifier
2722 (
accession number
), CHS-2722 (
call number
), CHS-2722 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-7383 (
legacy record id
), chs-m7243 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-10319 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-7372 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-9619 (
legacy record id
), 1-117-31 (
microfiche number
), 1-218- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
7383
Unique identifier
UC123134
Legacy Identifier
CHS-2722.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.0 in × 12.2 in at 300dpi
40.6 cm × 31.0 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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